Twittering Disasters
ADOTAS — As the evolving Mumbai violence last week showed, online tools, especially Twitter, have arrived as the primary up to date news gatherers for disasters, be it fires, earthquakes or terror plots, as reporters, bloggers and other experts get a handle on it and give some context.
But what does that make Twitter? If the New York Times stock wasn’t tanking, I would urge it to buy the social network, although I don’t know if $500 million (regardless if it was an actual value) would be a good price. Searching around for the possibilities for revenue for the company, which right now has none, seems to be an industry in itself.
While some say it’s a “glorified IM network,” others believe it’s an unique platform and it’s growth continues. A comparison could be made to YouTube, which still chases decent revenue, but was bought for $1.6 billion by Google.
I think too many times new (and sometimes old) popular tools are hyped and (possible) revenue streams are glossed over. But as long as there are investors ready to hand over money, the train will continue to run. Just look at the Huffington Post.
Reader Comments.
Great point about glossing over revenues. Twitter will certainly need those to remain independent. Twitter will also be immensely valuable to an acquiring company as it’s engagement grows.
Leave a Comment
Article Sponsor
More News
-
Loading ...
Latest News
- Hulu’s Bringing Its “A” Game But… March 19th 2010 ADOTAS – Hulu’s sales team is actively subverting the ad [...] more »
- Yelp! A class-action suit? March 19th 2010 ADOTAS – One of three civil suits against Yelp filed [...] more »
- Viacom Accuses Google; Testing Digital Millennium Copyright Act March 19th 2010 Viacom has accused Google of turning a blind eye to [...] more »
- Google to Leave China April 10th? March 19th 2010 ADOTAS – According to the China Business News, Google Inc [...] more »
- [x+1] Creates The Smartest Tagging System Around March 18th 2010 ADOTAS – Today, if you happen to be at the [...] more »
- IAB’s Video Standards Tackled By ADTECH March 18th 2010 ADOTAS – ADTECH, a part of AOL Advertising and an [...] more »
- Google Search and Mobile and….TV? Oh My! March 18th 2010 ADOTAS – Google wants to dominate your screens…. Not just [...] more »
Features
- Growing Pains March 19th 2010
- For Better or For Worse? March 18th 2010
- Yahoo! Wants to Get More Personal March 17th 2010
- Creative Considerations for the iPad March 16th 2010
- Amazon Leaves Colorado Affiliates Out in the Cold March 12th 2010
Spotlight
AdBidCentral’s CEO, Vivek Veeraraghavan Talks Openly*What was the inspiration to start AdBidCentral? The conditions that inspired AdBidCentral came from a variety of factors in my personal [...] more...
Reader Favorites
Classifieds
- Communications Fellow
- Sr Director, Marketing Services
- Senior Web Analyst
- Account Director
- Director of Analytics
Recent Comments
- Jedd Gould: I think you miss the point. Publications have to charge because the content most are
- Gavin Dunaway: They're similar, but Ning is more a competitor to Facebook and MySpace while StumbleUpon considers
- Steve Feldman: Does StumbleUpon compete with and does essentially what Ning networks does?
- Bulent: I wonder how many of the clients would accept a media plan, that would -as
